# Lead Data Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Hyderabad, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join our team in Hyderabad, India. This is a senior individual-contributor and technical leadership role that drives design standards and guides a team's engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities:

- Set and enforce design standards, patterns, and best practices for pipelines built on Databricks, Spark, Python, PySpark, and dbt.

- Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers, owning architecture and design reviews.

- Lead the design of CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins), DataOps, and data observability strategy for the team.

- Own Databricks platform administration standards and deployment governance using Databricks Asset Bundles.

- Drive resolution of complex technical challenges across pipelines and the platform.

- Mentor and grow engineers, establishing a strong code review and quality culture.

- Partner with product and stakeholders on roadmap, prioritization, and technical trade-offs.

- Own the deployment, migration, and upgrade strategy for the team's data platforms.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field.

- 8+ years of data engineering experience, including demonstrated technical leadership.

- Expert hands-on experience with Databricks (including administration), Spark, Python, and PySpark.

- Deep dbt/TDD and CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins) expertise.

- Proven ability to define engineering standards and lead a team's practices.

- Strong architecture and platform ownership across observability, cost, and performance.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ideally you have experience in banking, e-commerce, credit cards or payment processing and exposure to both SaaS and premises-based architectures.

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## Skills

### Required
- Databricks
- Spark
- Python
- PySpark
- dbt
- TDD
- CI/CD
- GitLab
- Jenkins

### Nice to have
- banking
- e-commerce
- credit cards
- payment processing
- SaaS

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